AP US History - Brightstorm

The AP US History Test

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Introduction

Course introduction

DBQ Practice

Test Taking Strategies

Test structure, strategies for multiple choice, DBQ, and free response

How to Write the Free Response Essay

How to write the free response essay

AP US History Videos

Videos	Materials	Links
History as Mystery Multiple-choice questions	Hunting Down Multiple Choice	College Board AP US History Searchable US History Timeline Searchable US History Timeline
What REAL Historians Do Historical essays	Organizing Tool for the DBQ	DBQ Information Sample DBQ Questions Critically Analyzing Info Secret Bombing of Cambodia SALT Treaty End of the Draft Nixon Visits China Pentagon Papers Watergate Break In Vietnamization Economy Steady
GREASing Success Free-response essay, urbanization, industrialization	Graphic Organizer: G-GREASES	Free-Response Essay
A Funny Thing Happened Discovery, Westward expansion, Louisiana Purchase, Manifest Destiny		American Indigenous People Indian Removal Policy Frontier in American History
We the People Kind Of Constitution, Bill of Rights, Founding Fathers, new nation	We the People. Kind of. Development of Self Government Strict or Loose: Bill of Rights	Articles of Confederation Constitution Grandfathers Connecticut Compromise Checks & Balances Checks & Balances Albany Plan of Union (1754)
A More Perfect Union John Marshall, Supreme Court, presidential power, regionalism	A More Perfect Union?
Separate & Unequal Reconstruction, Supreme Court, rise of big business, Plessey vs. Ferguson	Barons or Captains of Industry
Rollercoaster of Reform Supreme Court, Square Deal, FDR, New Deal, Johnson, Great Society, Civil Rights Acts	Graphic Organizer: 20th c. Supreme Court Cases
1/16 of Your Blood Early Republican period, slavery, Dred Scott case, 3/5 compromise, Douglass, jazz, blues	Further Resources: Race in America	Landmark Supreme Court Cases History of Race in U.S.A. Statement of Race Race in Society & History Rationalizing Race in History Life of Frederick Douglass Racial Integrity Act of 1924 Racial Categories
Jim, Jackie, Martin Reconstruction, civil rights, Brown vs. Board of Education, MLK, affirmative action	African American History	The Emancipation Proclamation Civil War Amendments The History of Jim Crow Affirmative Action Affirmative Action Project The Boston Busing Case Busing's Boston Masscre The Legacy of School Busing Reverse Discrimination Impact of Affirmative Action Racial Quotas
A Working-Class Hero The labor movement, AFL, Progressive movement, Cesar Chavez, Ronald Reagan	A Working Class Hero	AFL-CIO Timeline of Labor Taft-Hartley Act, Part 1 Taft-Hartley Act, Part 2 History of the AFL-CIO African American Labor History
Can't Take the Heat Women's history, temperance, suffrage, liberation	U.S. Women's History	Women's Rights Timeline Women's Impact on the Media Oral History Interviews
The Only Good Homestead Act, Dawes Act, Sand Creek and Wounded Knee, Korematsu vs. U.S.	Non-White in US history	The New Colossus, Emma Lazarus
New Kid on the Block Wars and diplomacy, George Washington, Jay's Treaty, Louisiana Purchase, Monroe Doctrine	Graphic Organizers: Presidents and Wars	Tarriffs in American History The Economic Effect of Tariffs
Saint or Sinner Wars and diplomacy, Spanish American War, WWI, WWII, Korean War, Vietnam War, Bosnia	The US on the World Stage	Beginning of Yellow Journalism US-Latin American Relations The White Man's Burden Atomic Bomb Decision
Who's the Boss Washington, Jefferson, Monroe, Jackson	Graphic Organizer: Presidential Policies (Washington, Jefferson, Monroe, Jackson)	Jeffersonian vs. Jacksonian John Jay's Treaty Washington's Farewell Address The Corrupt Bargain The Constitution
Trying Men's Soul Lincoln, Theodore Roosevelt, Wilson, FDR	Graphic Organizer: Presidential Policies (Lincoln, T. Roosevelt, Wilson, FDR)	The Gettysburg Address The Emancipation Proclamation The Second Inaugural Address Lincoln's Letter Progressive Era Timeline The Progressive Era FDRs Fireside Chates Alphabet Soup Photographs of Alphabet Soup
Bad Deciders Lyndon Johnson, Richard Nixon, Ronald Reagan	Graphic Organizer: Presidential Policies (Johnson, Nixon, Reagan)	Vietnam War Timeline Watergate Timeline Ronald Reagan Timeline Museum of the Moving Image

Videos

Materials

Links

History as Mystery

Multiple-choice questions

Hunting Down Multiple Choice

College Board AP US History

Searchable US History Timeline

What REAL Historians Do

Historical essays

Organizing Tool for the DBQ

DBQ Information

Sample DBQ Questions

Critically Analyzing Info

Secret Bombing of Cambodia

Free-response essay, urbanization, industrialization

Graphic Organizer: G-GREASES

Free-Response Essay

A Funny Thing Happened

Discovery, Westward expansion, Louisiana Purchase, Manifest Destiny

American Indigenous People

Indian Removal Policy

Frontier in American History

We the People Kind Of

Constitution, Bill of Rights, Founding Fathers, new nation

We the People. Kind of.

Development of Self Government

Strict or Loose: Bill of Rights

Articles of Confederation

Constitution Grandfathers

Connecticut Compromise

Checks & Balances

Albany Plan of Union (1754)

A More Perfect Union

John Marshall, Supreme Court, presidential power, regionalism

A More Perfect Union?

Separate & Unequal

Reconstruction, Supreme Court, rise of big business, Plessey vs. Ferguson

Barons or Captains of Industry

Rollercoaster of Reform

Supreme Court, Square Deal, FDR, New Deal, Johnson, Great Society, Civil Rights Acts

Graphic Organizer: 20th c. Supreme Court Cases

1/16 of Your Blood

Early Republican period, slavery, Dred Scott case, 3/5 compromise, Douglass, jazz, blues

Further Resources: Race in America

Landmark Supreme Court Cases

History of Race in U.S.A.

Statement of Race

Race in Society & History

Rationalizing Race in History

Life of Frederick Douglass

Racial Integrity Act of 1924

Racial Categories

Jim, Jackie, Martin

Reconstruction, civil rights, Brown vs. Board of Education, MLK, affirmative action

African American History

The Emancipation Proclamation

Civil War Amendments

The History of Jim Crow

Affirmative Action

Affirmative Action Project

The Boston Busing Case

Busing's Boston Masscre

The Legacy of School Busing

Reverse Discrimination

Impact of Affirmative Action

Racial Quotas

A Working-Class Hero

The labor movement, AFL, Progressive movement, Cesar Chavez, Ronald Reagan

A Working Class Hero

AFL-CIO Timeline of Labor

Taft-Hartley Act, Part 1

Taft-Hartley Act, Part 2

History of the AFL-CIO

African American Labor History

Can't Take the Heat

Women's history, temperance, suffrage, liberation

U.S. Women's History

Women's Rights Timeline

Women's Impact on the Media

Oral History Interviews

The Only Good

Homestead Act, Dawes Act, Sand Creek and Wounded Knee, Korematsu vs. U.S.

Non-White in US history

The New Colossus, Emma Lazarus

New Kid on the Block

Wars and diplomacy, George Washington, Jay's Treaty, Louisiana Purchase, Monroe Doctrine

Graphic Organizers: Presidents and Wars

Tarriffs in American History

The Economic Effect of Tariffs

Saint or Sinner

Wars and diplomacy, Spanish American War, WWI, WWII, Korean War, Vietnam War, Bosnia

The US on the World Stage

Beginning of Yellow Journalism

US-Latin American Relations

The White Man's Burden

Atomic Bomb Decision

Who's the Boss

Washington, Jefferson, Monroe, Jackson

Graphic Organizer: Presidential Policies (Washington, Jefferson, Monroe, Jackson)

Jeffersonian vs. Jacksonian

John Jay's Treaty

Washington's Farewell Address

The Corrupt Bargain

The Constitution

Trying Men's Soul

Lincoln, Theodore Roosevelt, Wilson, FDR

Graphic Organizer: Presidential Policies (Lincoln, T. Roosevelt, Wilson, FDR)

The Gettysburg Address

The Emancipation Proclamation

The Second Inaugural Address

Lincoln's Letter

Progressive Era Timeline

The Progressive Era

FDRs Fireside Chates

Alphabet Soup

Photographs of Alphabet Soup

Bad Deciders

Lyndon Johnson, Richard Nixon, Ronald Reagan

Graphic Organizer: Presidential Policies (Johnson, Nixon, Reagan)

Vietnam War Timeline

Watergate Timeline

Ronald Reagan Timeline

Museum of the Moving Image

AP US History Review

Videos	Materials	Links
The Big End How to review AP U.S. History	Getting Organized for the Test	10 Tips for Acing the AP Exam
Using Graphic Organizers to Review G-GREASES, Review history by Era	G-GREASES Graphic Organizer Historical Eras Graphic Organizer
Presidential Policy and Historical Time Graphic Organizer, Presidents, Historical Time line	Presidential Policy Graphic Organizer Sample Historical Timeline

Videos

Materials

Links

The Big End

How to review AP U.S. History

Getting Organized for the Test

10 Tips for Acing the AP Exam

Using Graphic Organizers to Review

G-GREASES, Review history by Era

G-GREASES Graphic Organizer

Historical Eras Graphic Organizer

Presidential Policy and Historical Time